Spiro Maroulis

Spiro Maroulis is an Assistant Professor at the School of Public Affairs, and the Associate Director for Policy Informatics at the ASU Decision Theater. His research addresses problems involved with understanding the relationship between individual and collective behavior, particularly in the context of understanding why well-intentioned public policies so often provoke resistance and unanticipated responses by the system they are trying to improve. This includes investigating innovation implementation and change inside organizations, as well as modeling the emergence and evolution of markets and institutions. He received his B.S.E from Duke University, M.P.P. from Harvard University, and Ph.D. from Northwestern University.

School of Public Affairs
411 N. Central Ave.
Phoenix
AZ
85258
United States

Email: spiro.maroulis@asu.edu
Web: http://www.public.asu.edu/~smarouli/

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Eytan Bakshy

Eytan is a senior researcher on the Facebook Data Science Team. His interests include peer effects in social networks, field experiments, and causal inference. He holds a Ph.D. in Information from the University of Michigan and a B.S. in mathematics from the University of Illinois. This work was conducted while the author was a researcher at Northwestern University.

1601 Willow Rd.
Menlo Park
CA 94025
United States

Email: eytan@fb.com

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Louis Gomez

Louis Gomez is Professor of Urban Schooling and Information Studies, and holds the MacArthur Chair in Digital Media and Learning, in the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. Gomez is also a Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. His research interests encompass Improvement Science in Education, the application of computing and networking technology to teaching and learning, applied cognitive science and human–computer interaction. Gomez holds a bachelor’s degree in Psychology from the SUNY-Stony Brook and the doctorate in cognitive psychology from UC Berkeley.

Graduate School of Education & Information Studies
1002 Moore Hall
UCLA
United States

Email: lmgomez@ucla.edu

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Uri Wilensky

Uri Wilensky, mathematician, educator, computer scientist and learning technologist, is the founder and current director of the Center for Connected Learning and Computer-Based Modeling at Northwestern University. Dr Wilensky is a professor of Learning Sciences, Computer Science and Complex System. He also holds an appointment in the cognitive science program, and is on the governing board of the Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO). His recent projects focus on developing tools that enable users (both researchers and learners) to simulate, explore and make sense of complex systems. His NetLogo agent-based modeling software is used by tens of thousands of scientists and educators worldwide.

Center for Connected Learning and Computer-Based Modeling
Annenberg Hall 337
Evanston
IL, 60208
United States

Email: uri@northwestern.edu
Web: http://ccl.northwestern.edu/uri